Subject

Target groups

Sectors

Level of experience

for all levels, Beginners, Intermediary, Experienced

Prerequisites

None

Comments

This training doesn't cover copyrights and neighbouring rights or encoding SMart contracts. To deepen these subjects, we invite you to follow a cost-free info session. If you're a photographer, you can also follow the training "Photography - copyrights and image rights"

Description

This training presents the elements that should be included in creative professionals' contracts

Content

What is a contract/an agreement?

What are the essential categories that need to appear in a contract?

What are the important questions that needs to be asked when writing a contract or reading one?

Method

Active methodology, putting the accent on the participants' inputs and giving them the possibility to exchange among peers. Presentation by the trainer as an expert of that field.

Objectives

Know the basic rules to write a contract/an agreement

Be able to valorize your own rights while writing a contract

Results

To be more at ease when negotiating or receiving a contract

Resources

Training script

Basic equipment (computer, video projector, flipchart, wifi)

Evaluations

Questionnaire to be filled out by the participants (paper and online versions exist)

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SMart is a non-profit organisation created in Belgium in 1998 which is developing itself in 8 European countries. SMart aims to simplify and support the professional paths of creative and cultural workers. Their principal goal is to help the self-employed to develop their own activities through a secure system.